Jay Vine has taken another major step on his remarkable comeback to cycling by making the podium in third place at one of European cycling's top stage races, the Tour de Romandie.
The tough Australian, whose career was in the balance last year after a horror crash at the tour of the Basque Country, put in a terrific final-day time trial in the Swiss race on Sunday to grab his first overall podium place at a WorldTour event since winning the Tour Down Under back home at the start of 2023.
It demonstrated the 29-year-old Queenslander is returning to near his finest form as he approaches next week's first Grand Tour of the year, the Giro d'Italia, as part of a strong Australian line-up.
